Australian immigration and asylum

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As a Lebanese Australian, the country I live in feels hostile to my pain – and by extension, to me | Sherine Al Shallah
Every bit of news of every attack trivialises everything else here. Dreams, plans, ‘achievements’

Sherine Al Shallah

21, Oct, 2024 @11:40 PM

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‘I believe I can win’: the immigrant hoping to upset Labor in a western Sydney stronghold
Ahmed Ouf, a pharmacist from Egypt, says local election success means he can take Blaxland from Jason Clare

Mostafa Rachwani Community affairs reporter

21, Oct, 2024 @2:00 PM

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‘If you want us to die, we need to know’: hundreds of thousands of Afghans are waiting for visas to Australia – and time is running out
Some managed to evacuate. Many left behind, including the family of Afghan Australians, live in fear of ‘beatings’ or of simply ‘disappearing’

Tory Shepherd

12, Oct, 2024 @7:00 PM

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Doubts over legal regime to redetain those released from Australian immigration detention, FoI documents reveal
Exclusive: Meeting minutes show that without any offending by those released, it is hard to ‘illustrate that they pose an ongoing risk’

Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

08, Oct, 2024 @2:00 PM

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Chief medical officer Paul Kelly to retire – as it happened
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Cait Kelly and Amy Remeikis (earlier)

08, Oct, 2024 @6:55 AM

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Visas for Palestinians take median time of four months to process, despite Coalition claims
Exclusive: Guardian Australia found Coalition politicians cited the 24-hour figure in interviews on at least 12 occasions in August

Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

04, Oct, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Wong confirms up to 500 Australians and close relatives to board repatriation flights from Beirut – as it happened
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Mostafa Rachwani, Cait Kelly, Petra Stock and Rafqa Touma (earlier)

04, Oct, 2024 @7:54 AM

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Gold Coast high school students hospitalised after eating mushroom gummies – as it happened
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Cait Kelly and Emily Wind (earlier)

02, Oct, 2024 @8:03 AM

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Assange says he is free because he ‘pled guilty to journalism’ – as it happened
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Mostafa Rachwani and Emily Wind (earlier)

01, Oct, 2024 @8:18 AM

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Sukhdeep wants to see her mother while she is still alive – but Australia’s visa rules have left her in limbo
For migrants on Australian bridging visas, every three months brings mental torture

Rafqa Touma

26, Sep, 2024 @3:00 PM

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‘It grows this anger within people’: how Australia treats those fleeing humanitarian disaster depends on where they came from – and when
Hassan Elhassan works two jobs to support his family of six. Without change, there’s ‘no light on the horizon’

Rafqa Touma and Ben Doherty

24, Sep, 2024 @3:00 PM

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‘Sneaky move’: Labor accused of trying to quietly curtail appeals from people seeking asylum
Applications could be thrown out over very minor technicalities under proposed amendments, refugee advocates and Greens warn

Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

20, Sep, 2024 @10:07 PM

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